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In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Benjamin Spock

Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
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Country Intervention War
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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Captain Choice Creativity
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
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Baby Children Learning
I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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Dignity Husband Love Marriage
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.
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Father Girl Possible Zoos
If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Children Quality Wish
Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don’t mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
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Children Future Mean Parent Teacher
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom Mother
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
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Children Fear Horse

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

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